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SubjectRe: Side effect of pressing special keys
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Ok, and what about KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE when bios also handle
> keyboard backlight level? Should be this key filtered too?

IME, heck yes.

If you ever make the mistake of sending to userspace something the
BIOS/kernel already reacted to, they will find a way to loop it back to you
and cause all sort of issues.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh


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